KJV King James Version
Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
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James 5:16
Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
WEB World English Bible
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
ASV American Standard Version
Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;
Surrounding context — James 5
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἐξομολογεῖσθεG1843 · exomologeomaito agreeοὖνG3767 · ountherefore/thenἀλλήλοιςG240 · allēlōnone anotherτὰςG3588 · hothe/this/whoἁμαρτίαςG266 · hamartiasinκαὶG2532 · kaiandεὔχεσθεG2172 · euchomaito pray/wish forὑπὲρG5228 · huperabove/forἀλλήλων,G240 · allēlōnone anotherὅπωςG3704 · hopōsthatἰαθῆτε·G2390 · iaomaito healπολὺG4183 · polusmuchἰσχύειG2480 · ischuōbe strongδέησιςG1162 · deēsispetitionδικαίουG1342 · dikaiosjustἐνεργουμένη.G1754 · energeōbe active
Cross-references
Jeremiah 29:12-13Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.Proverbs 15:29The LORD [is] far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.Matthew 21:22And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.Psalm 34:15The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their cry.John 9:31Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.Jeremiah 33:3Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.Psalm 145:18-19The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.1 Peter 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.Matthew 7:7-11Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:1 John 3:22And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.Daniel 9:20-22And whiles I [was] speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.Acts 19:18And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.Luke 11:11-13If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if [he ask] a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?Psalm 10:17-18LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:1 Thessalonians 5:17Pray without ceasing.Job 42:8Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you [after your] folly, in that ye have not spoken of me [the thing which is] right, like my servant Job.Genesis 20:17So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare [children].
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